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This Week in Indie Bookstores
Baltimore is getting a new bookstore, Greedy Reads, from the former marketing director of Melville House. Check out the best queer bookstores from around the world! Europa Editions is opening a...
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When We Were Friends
We are the type of busy that affords long afternoons taking personality quizzes. Veronica scoots her laptop across the table towards me. The screen reads, What is your true color aura? It’s the year of...
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Used bookstores look to survive in a rapidly changing business climate. Rome’s Otherwise Bookshop offers bookseller residencies to share the experience of selling books in Italy. Five bookstores around...
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A Kind of Cartography: Talking with Elizabeth Geoghegan
On the second page of Elizabeth Geoghegan’s eightball, the speaker gives us a key to clutch onto as we ride through this debut story collection. “My internal compass useless,” she says. It’s a kind of...
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #202: Michelle Steinbeck
It was the title of Michelle Steinbeck’s debut novel that first grabbed my attention: My Father was a Man on Land and a Whale in the Water. Upon opening the book, I was swiftly introduced to a...
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SquareRoot of Love: A Wine and Words Dinner
“Life without love is not life at all.” – Leonardo Da Vinci Ten years ago, in 2010, I introduced SquareRoot of Love as an installation in New York City. This installation was a duet exhibition and...
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A Hong Kong bookseller, harassed by authorities from mainland China, has set up a new shop in Taiwan—an independent country China claims ownership of. Vogue checks in on how independent bookstores are...
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Hope Campbell Gustafson
Last year, Hope Campbell Gustafson translated excerpts of Italian writer Marco Lodoli’s Isole (2010) and Nuove Isole (2014) for a book, Islands—New Islands, which we edited together for Fontanella...
View ArticleThe Past Is All We Have: André Aciman’s Homo Irrealis
As I write these words, I am aware that the thoughts I am on the verge of forming are rolling into the past even before I can convey them. The now is sliding from my grasp. Perhaps the now doesn’t...
View ArticleThe Everyday Practice of Art:The Loft Generation by Edith Schloss
Young people must assemble their lives. Sometimes a person can feel like a pile of sticks precariously balanced against each other as they begin to make decisions on their own. Until all at once it is...
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